The new museum dedicated to the Mary Rose, the flagship of Henry VIII, will open its doors on 31st May 2013. Designed by Wilkinson Eyre Architects, it integrates the original hull from the ship in a renovated dry dock, coupled with a virtual hull demonstrating original artefacts.
Wilkinson Eyre (+ images) Mary Rose Museum
The Mayor of London unveiled a project for a Floating Village at the recent Cannes MIPIM. Housing, hotels, bars and restaurants will be installed on 6 ha of water at the Royal Victoria Dock site (Newham).
FMJ
The Festival Wing project has just been unveiled. It will include two concert halls and a building for the visual arts. They will be surmounted by a large glazed structure which could be a new hit on the London scene. A building devoted to the creation industries, an educational space, restaurants and roof-top terraces are planned.
London Evening Standard (+ images) Gabion
2013 could be a year of consolidation after a hectic 2012: the stopping of SeaFrance services, the alliance between DFDS and Louis Dreyfus Lines, Eurotunnel’s entry onto the scene, the deployment of bigger ships by P&O Ferries… From one port to another, the situations are very different. State of Play
Journal de la marine marchande
The Mayor of London wants to make the river an integral part of the of the British capital’s transport system. The aim is to boost passenger numbers from the 6.5 million of 2011/2012 to 12 million in 2020. €11.6 million have been set aside largely for the development of certain piers.
Transport for London
Milford Haven (UK): the port is to install 20,000 solar panels (5 megawatts, 1000 homes) (Port of Milford Haven, 04/02/2013)
Grimsby (United Kingdom): a port in the Royal Docks for offshore wind generation (News from Hull & Yorkshire, 26/02/2013)
Port of Tyne (United Kingdom): growth in renewable energy targeted (Port technology, 24/01/2013)
Liverpool (United Kingdom): Peel Ports announces €368 million for the second container terminal (+500,000 TEU) (Port Technology, 14/12/2012)
UK: in spite of the crisis the shipping industry has created 7,300 jobs in the past two years and generated €39 billion (Maritime journal, 20/12/2012)
Liverpool (UK): start of works for a "Maritime Academy" in Collingwood Dock (Maritime journal, 20/12/2012)
Immingham (UK) : ABP issues the masterplan 2010 - 2030 for the port, ranked top of the country for tonnage (ABP, 15/10/2012)
London (UK) : opening of the largest research centre in the world on storage of CO² (Port news, 18/09/2012)
Saint Petersburg (Russia) : limited by the presence of the city, the port will be developed seawards (Port news, 29/08/2012)
Bilbao (Spain) – Tilbury (UK) : European financing for a highway of the sea (Port World, 20/08/2012)
Liverpool (UK): agreement with EIB to finance half of the container terminal destined for 13 500 TEU vessels (Port news, 02/08/2012)
London (UK): James Corner to redevelop the 22 hectares of the Olympic Park on the Thames by 2014 (Design Boom, 08/2012 ; Inhabitat, 01/08/2012)
London : UPS are using containers on the Thames for the Olympic Games, a test due to be developed (World Cargo News, 26/05/2012)
Copenhagen, Frankfurt, Bristol : three port cities finalists to become the Green Capital of Europe in 2014 (Actu Environnement, 17/04/2012)
London (UK) : yachts will be able to moor in the Royal Docks during the Olympic Games (Marina World, 03/2012)
London : after Container City, "Box Park", a commercial centre of 60 containers on a former wasteland (Projets urbains et réalisations architecturales, 17/01/2012)
Liverpool (RU) : feu vert de la Ville pour Liverpool Waters, malgré l’opposition de English Heritage et de l’Unesco (The Guardian, 06/03/2012)
Liverpool UK) : a new proposal of a skyscraper on King Edward, close to the historic waterfront (Architects journal, 24/01/2012)
Hartlepool (UK) : the port chosen as a logistics base for an offshore wind farm (Nebusiness, 05/03/2012)
London : Terry Farrell proposes an alternative to save the famous Battersea Power Station from demolition (Architects’ Journal, 17/02/2012)
Channel : agreement between the French DCNS and the English ARE for the development of wave turbines (Actu environnement, 17/02/2012)
Southampton (UK) : a hotel in the shape of a yacht in ’Ocean Village’ proposed by Harbour Hotels and MDL Marinas. (Ocean Village, 23/01/2012)
Dover, the first port in the United Kingdom to participate in the governmental CO² reduction programme (World Port Development, (12/2011)
Felixstowe (UK) : the top container port of the country worried about the future London Gateway announced in 2013 (Port Strategy, 2012/01/12)
Hull and the Humber (UK) : Eon announce "Humber Gateway", an offshore wind farm with a supply capacity of 170000 households (Hull news, 16/12/2011)
London (UK) : the debts of the principal owner of Battersea Sea could put the project of Rafael Vinoly in question. (Architect Journal, 01/12/2011)
Liverpool (UK) : the 2020 Masterplan of the port receives wide support during the public enquiry (Port Technology, 15 novembre 2011)
United Kingdom : acceleration of offshore wind farms in the South of the country with a 650 MW farm Eon in the front line (Maritime journal, 12/10/2011)
London Gateway : the new Port will be operational at end 2013 with a capacity of 1.6 million TEUs (PLA, 04/10/2011)
Felixstowe (UK) : with 1500 new jobs, the extension to the port will strengthen its weight in the economy of the country (Port of Felixstowe, 28/09/2011)